The White House late
Monday published a list of supposedly "under-reported" terrorist
attacks, following up on President Donald Trump's claim that the media was deliberately
suppressing coverage of such acts.

In addition to the
fact that many of the events listed were extensively covered by the press,
glaringly absent, many noted, are attacks committed by white men and those
whose victims were non-Western.

Putting to rest claims
that the listed attacks were under-reported, the Guardian on
Tuesday published the full White House list with
internal links and details regarding "how they were reported."

"What does the
White House's choice of 'cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to
report' tell us?" the newspaper asks, using the president's own words.

As many pointed out,
Trump's list specifically does not include attacks perpetrated by white men or
where Muslims were the majority of victims, such as last week's deadly shooting
at a Quebec City mosque.

Arguing that such
exclusions are even more telling than what is included, the Washington
Post's Katie Mettler and Derek Hawkins write: "Some of the countries most
devastated by terrorism from Islamic extremists were left out entirely. Whether
that suggests that the administration thinks they received adequate coverage is
anyone's guess. But it was a glaring omission either way."

They continue:

In 2015, nearly three quarters of all deaths
from terrorist attacks occurred in five countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria,
Pakistan, and Syria, according to the State Department. The White House chose not to
include any attacks from Iraq, Nigeria and Syria on its list. The two others
got a single mention each—a knife attack that wounded a U.S. citizen in
Pakistan in 2015, and a suicide bombing that killed 14 Nepalese security guards
in Afghanistan last year.

Similarly, between 2004 and 2013, about half of
all terrorist attacks and 60 percent of fatalities from terrorist attacks took
place in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, Erin Miller, of the Global Terrorism
Database at the University of Maryland, told
the BBC.

It's hard to precisely quantify how many
victims of terrorism are Muslim. Some have floated statistics as high as 95
percent, and the U.S. government has published reports reflecting that number.
But experts such as Miller say it's difficult to determine how accurate the
reports are because most data depends on news coverage, and often the
religious affiliation of terrorist attack victims is not included.

What's more, as CBSreported, none of the attacks on Trump's
terror list "would have been prevented by his [travel] ban" on
immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries.

As for the White
House's intent, some observers, such as the Washington Post's
Philip Bump, suggest that the whole frenzy was deliberately
designed to get the press to reiterate these dozens of attacks to underscore
Trump's call for closed borders.

Others point to the
fact that far-right outlets like InfoWars have long sown fears
about a "massive media cover-up."

Thought for the day

Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!

Individual One’s tweet at 4:52 AM - 17 Feb 2019 after a long, hard day of playing golf at Mar-A-Lago on Day Two of our “national emergency.”

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